Do Sophomores Still Slump?$
4/23Checking on an old pearl of wisdom, and vindicating a player most people forgot long ago.
Shooting the Moon$
4/09A thought experiment in how to salvage baseball's lost causes.
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4/08If only we could blame the rash of pitching injuries on one thing, and not everything.
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3/28Why even play the games, when we can hand out baseball’s biggest award right now.
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3/26There are the truths we want, and the truths that are most likely, and the truths we have to wait for.
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3/20Ha-Seong Kim didn't make a mistake, because we haven't decided it is one yet.
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3/12There's plenty of time to be old later.
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3/07There's plenty of ways to analyze doubles. Prediction is another matter.
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3/01In baseball and life, you make your own luck, but only if you’re lucky.
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2/13As always, there's growth and then there's growth.
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1/25A look at what happens when a ballgame is over and still going at the same time.
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1/22The crowds may not favor the bold, but often the metrics do.
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1/02Taking a journey through the ruins of a bubble popped long ago.
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12/06Why baseball has never quite worked in image form.
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12/04The Mariners could never have sunk the Titanic, because they would have needed to keep rearranging the deck chairs before even moving.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightPutting the Right Foot Forward$
11/30A look at 0-0 counts and the importance of meatballs.
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